want the election scrapped calling it a sham. welcome to the programme. we start with the international row over tiktok. china has accused the us of overreacting after federal employees were ordered to remove the app from government issued phones. tiktok is owned by the chinese firm bytedance. and on monday, the white house gave government agencies 30 days to remove tiktok from their phones. the us calls the guidance a critical step forward in addressing the risks presented by the app to sensitive government data. chris derusha is the federal chief information security officer. he said the guidance is part of the administration s ongoing commitment to securing our digital infrastructure and protecting the american people s security and privacy. china disagrees. here s a foreign ministry spokesperson. the ministry spokesperson. united states, the rhodes one the united states, the rhodes number one superpower, is so afraid of a mobile phone application to young people like so
tally of provisional results from all 36 states. but opposition parties are calling for the election to be cancelled alleging fraud after technical problems in the new electronic voting system. we ll get to that shortly but first let s look at the results. the governing party candidate bola tinubu has a clear lead with around 35% of the counted votes. his main rival attiku abubakar from the peoples democratic party has almost 30%. and labour s peter obi trails on 26% though he caused an upset by defeating mr tinubu in the biggest city, lagos. but as we mentioned the opposition parties are now calling for the election to be cancelled over what they say is voter fraud in the new electronic polling system. votes are collated in each of nigeria s 36 states before the count is transmitted to the electoral commission s tallying centre. but delays slowed the uploading
let s turn to nigeria now where it s being reported ruling party candidate bola tinubu has a definitive lead in the presidential election. that s according to a reuters tally of provisional results from all 36 states. but opposition parties are calling for the election to be cancelled alleging fraud after technical problems in the new electronic voting system. we ll get to that shortly but first let s look at the results. the governing party candidate bola tin ubu has a clear lead with around 35% of the counted votes. his main rival att iku abu bakar from the peoples democratic party has almost 30%. and labour s peter 0bi trails on 26% though he caused an upset by defeating mr tinubu in the biggest city, lagos. but as we mentioned the opposition parties are now calling for the election to be cancelled over what they say is voter fraud in the new electronic polling system.
of the united states, - and they should be protected, even in the right to test them out | so that they don t get their heads broken and are sent to hospital. this religious controversy i know you don t want to say too much about it but does it worry you that it s going to boil up? oh, it worries me, yes, but i hope everything ll be all right at the end of the day. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is. china has condemned the us government s decision to order all its agencies to delete the social media app tiktok because of security concerns. the british prime minister visits northern ireland, spelling out the benefits as he sees them of the new trading arrangements with the eu. let s turn to nigeria now where it s being reported ruling party candidate bola tinubu has a definitive lead in the presidential election. that s according to a reuters
involved in the elections should be cancelled and they want the countries chief electoral 0fficer cancelled and they want the countries chief electoral officer to step down and calling on the president to intervene in the crisis. that s the view from the opposition, our correspondent mayeni jones has been speaking to the nigerian public in lagos about the vote. went out into the streets this morning and were speaking to an impassioned group of men who were talking politics over the newspapers, and all of them supported a different candidate. but one thing they all agreed on was that they were really unhappy with the way the election had been handled by the national electoral commission. all of them said they wished they d been able to see the results as promised immediately after the votes were counted. they were incredibly suspicious by the fact that that didn t happen. so there s suspicion from the public and claims of fraud from the opposition parties but election observers say de